Squid #15 - Time Travel

The Squid of Despair

In this episode DAS has a proposition: He would like to suggest that we experience time as a variable, not a constant.

Interesting start, he continues:

That you think our experience of time changes depending on the context, when we're happy time flies, when we're not enjoying ourselves, time seems to drag. And there's lots of phrases about this, you talk about people describing themselves as being slaves to time where you're trapped by the amount of time you've got available to do the things you want to do, which often you don't want to do. But I'm going to suggest in this podcast that I think we can make time elastic, we can manipulate it, so it appears to slow down or speed up according to our requirements, so we can be the master of time rather than the slave of time.

And so, the two intrepid podcasters become Time Lords (cue Dr Who music).

Peter also discovers a character called ‘Julian of Norwich’, who turns out to be a lady who famously said ““And all shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of things shall be exceeding well.” Which DAS thinks is insightful, and Peter finds slightly repetitive (but in an inspiring way).

Peter prefers the insight of Pink Floyd:

• Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
• Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
• Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
• The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say